Software Design: Tidy First?

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Thinkie: Else?

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Kent Beck
May 21, 2024
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Pattern: You have a situation where a condition has a consequence.

Transformation: What happens if the condition does not hold?

The best example I have of this Thinkie is TCR, an alternative coding workflow. I was telling a coding camp at Iterate about wanting to always be able to get back to green tests. I described a shell command I used—”test.sh && git…

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